Experiment allows trees to make trunk calls

Maybe King Charles had it right all along - talking to plants and hugging trees. They just might be able to hear you and, what's more, talk back.

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Trees that talk back might sound like something fresh out of a fairy tale or a psychedelic trip, but a hi-tech stunt aimed at bridging the divide between youth culture with nature has turned fantasy into reality.

London-based agency Droga5 dreamed up the campaign for the creative popup, Agency for Nature, giving voice to trees in the UK capital, Dublin and Austin, Texas, according to Positive News.

Bioelectrical signals from each tree were transformed into speech through an Al large language model. It was fed insights about the trees' lifespans and histories, alongside data from biosensors that record metrics such as wind speed, temperature and soil moisture.